Levelling Out: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - All Ghillied Up

"Each day this week our writer Vaughn will be putting up an article about one particular level, place, moment, in a game that’s really captures the titles essence but because of this there could be spoilers ahead. It’s called Levelling Out, and for the final day he’s looking at Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

"Activision’s Call of Duty franchise is arguably the biggest game franchise around at the moment, and easily the biggest selling shooter of all time. Every publisher, especially EA, wants to create the next hit that dwarfs Infinity Ward and Treyarch’s creation. However, it wasn’t always the big selling top-dog it is now. In fact, the series only really took off when the World War II storyline was ditched in favour of a future conflict based around plausible forecasts."

Was the standout level in cod 4 and a level I went back to again and again, on veteran it was a good challenge as well. Especially the last bit, modern warfare 4 needs to do what modern warfare did, rejuvenate the fps genre.

When I played this level for the first time in 2007, I never saw graphics that realistic on ANYTHING. I remember watching whoever the guy is that you're following running through the grass, leaning around corners, and blending into a tree trunk with his ghillie suit...that was the pinnacle of motion-capture technology. I couldn't tell it apart from a real person. The lighting on that level was amazing, too. It was just grimy and gloomy, yet real. The particle effects of all the dust, especially inside that little church, were amazing. If the grass and the sky moved, it would have been technically perfect.

I hope that COD 4 gets remade next gen with everything cranked up to max, in 1080p, with full dynamic lighting, clouds, etc etc...as I would absolutely love to play through this again with it being as good as it possibly can.